Examples from literature. 1  Catalepsy is produced by a sudden sharp noise, or by the sight of a brightly gleaming object. 2  For the moment, I thought he had been seized with a fit of catalepsy. 3  He hurried back into the room and found his patient in a state of catalepsy.  I was in a kind of conscious catalepsy.
Beijing's 2017 population is now estimated at 22,063,000. In 1950, the population of Beijing was 1,671,000. Beijing has grown by 1,679,000 in the last year, which represents a 8.20% change. These population estimates and projections come from the latest revision of the UN World Urbanization Prospects.
As of July, 2014, China's population is estimated at 1,355,692,576. In 2011, the urban population in China was down to 50.6 percent with a 2.85 percent average annual growth rate from 2010 to 2015. The most densely populated cities in China include Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou and Shenzhen.Learn more about East Asia.